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I am today sending Clay the last copy for the Scripture Readings, I suppose we may consider now whether the five volumes can be made more compact and profitable, and I hope Clay will finish off the present one quickly.

Thanks for sending all these notices of the Primer.1 It is odd I thought I had written up to MacMahon’s election, but perhaps Mr Green thought the siege made a better conclusion – and that I could not grasp it.

Thanks for the primers. English composition is very good. Though I wonder at the condemnation of pell mell and topsy turvey.

1CMY's History of France (1878), one of the History Primer series edited by the historian John Richard Green (1837-1883). Marie-Edmé-Patrice-Maurice de MacMahon (1808-1893) was elected President of France in 1873.2These were the corrections to her Story of the Christians and the Moors in Spain pointed out in a harsh review by Mary Augusta Ward.